Sentences with phrase «than punitive ones»

When awarding attorney's fees on the basis of inherent authority, courts are limited to compensatory amounts rather than punitive ones.

In Phase One, we will introduce our RP / SEL model to three schools and work intensively with them to improve the model, identify best practices, and create tools to support schools in using these best practices to create school cultures based on restorative approaches rather than punitive ones.

In Phase One, we will introduce our RP / SEL model to three schools and work intensively with them to improve the model, identify best practices, and create tools to support schools in using these best practices to create equitable school cultures based on restorative approaches rather than punitive ones.

Not exact matches

Thomas added that the sentence was «clearly issued on a punitive rather than on a legal basis» and said: «The constant harassment of members of the Christian community ought not to be occurring in a country where the constitution not only recognises Christianity, but also states that no - one should be molested or taken to task simply for holding a religious belief.

The study, appearing in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, found that criminal activity is lower in societies where people's religious beliefs contain a strong punitive component than in places where religious beliefs are more benevolent.

It's a heck of a lot more motivating than grabbing your muffin top (if you have one) with disdain and viewing diet as a punitive method of correcting something you don't love about yourself.

I think the major thing we found was, because they were focused on a more of an educative approach than what we would call a punitive approach (like punishing kids)... One was seeing things as a problem or a conflict that needed to be resolved.

The Union supports a model of school improvement and accountability which is based around professional dialogue, and that is supportive and developmental, rather than one which is intrusive and punitive.

At best this is a punitive move rather than an obviously productive one.

The tax treatment of PFICs is extremely punitive compared to the tax treatment of similar investments that are incorporated in the U.S.. For example, an American holder of a U.S. incorporated mutual fund invested in European stocks pays the low long - term capital gains rate of 15 % if the fund is held for more than one year.

One response to this problem is to note that those situations simply won't occur too often, and if they do, these results should not be viewed as controversial compared to the various cases in which courts have upheld punitive damages awards that constitute a far higher percentage of net wealth or value than what I've suggested under retributive dam - ages.

As to courts, — the satisfactive remedy, you are admitted to demand at the hands of either of two courts — the King's Bench or the Common Pleas; not to speak of the Exchequer: the punitive, you are not admitted to demand in more than one of these two courts, namely the King's Bench.

(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.